lotto dreaming.....

Having lots of money may not make you any happier... but having too little can make you very miserable.
 
...Actually, the odds are half that again as you have to play a min of 2 lines. 1-in-8m is the odds of any particular combination coming up, but playing 2 lines reduces your odds by half....
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You sure about that? I would have thought it would just double your chance of winning (2 to 8,145,060), not halve the odds! The odds for each play would remain the same (1 to 8,145,060)...
 
OK OK.... I just couldn't keep it to myself - the numbers for tomorrow night are 4,8,15,16,23 & 42...... now get lost
 
A friend of mine did a couple of lines in Croke Park recently but still didn't win.....
 
There are 8,145,060 possible combinations. Any single combination has a 1 in 8,145,060 chance of coming up. If you buy the required minimum of two lines (line A and line B):
- the chance of line A coming up is 1 in 8,145,060;
- the chance of line B coming up is 1 in 8,145,060;
- the chance of one of your lines coming up (either line A or line B, you don't care which!) is 2 in 8,145,060 or 1 in 4,072,530.

Doubling the number of lines you play doubles your chance of winning, although the odds of a specific line winning are the same for each line: 1 in 8,145,060.
 
damson said:
- the chance of one of your lines coming up (either line A or line B, you don't care which!) is 2 in 8,145,060 or 1 in 4,072,530.
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The dreaming is over and it wasn't me, but...

I'm still 'wondering' about this halving of the odds from 1 in 8,145,060 to 1 in 4,072,530 just by buying two lines. Surely this can't be right... The odds of 1 in 8,145,060 were because to guarantee you having the/a winning ticket you needed to have 8,145,060 different lines. Using that logic and applying it to 2 lines with odds of 1:4,072,530 should mean that you are guaranteed to win with 4,072,530 lines (which of course you wouldn't!).
Or am I asking the wrong question...
 

"Using that logic and applying it to 2 lines with odds of 1:4,072,530 should mean that you are guaranteed to win with 4,072,530 x 2 lines - i.e. 8,145,060 lines"
 
So, what else could I have invested my four euro in that would let me get away from behing this stupid desk?
 
yoganmahew said:
So, what else could I have invested my four euro in that would let me get away from behing this stupid desk?
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You mean you want to stop be[h]ing a desk and be something else? Like chair or a toboggan or something?
 
yoganmahew said:
So, what else could I have invested my four euro in that would let me get away from behing this stupid desk?
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You could take a walk and give it to a homeless person, that'd get you out from behind a desk!
And you can't lose either, you'd feel good helping those in need
 
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